[Andrew Mckee]

Surely its not as simple as that. Both 16:9 and 4:3 PAL SD footage have dimensions of 720×576, so how is Avid supposed to know if it should stretch it to 4:3 or 16:9?

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[Andrew Mckee]

Assuming this is a performance based video, the first thing you need to decide is whether you want to cut it using multicamera editing or just stack the various angles on top of each other in a sequence and chop it up. Either way, you need to have an easy way of syncing the various angles up, both to each other and to the music. Timecode is an easy option (for the editor at least) but can be fairly expensive for the ammount of time it takes to sync up without it. I have produced and edited many music videos without it. The secret is to add a couple of bars of click track to the beggining of song that the band will be miming to. Not only does this cue them as to when the song will start, it also gives you a sync point to line up each angle (so long as you record sound on your camera(s)). All you have to do then is set an in point on the same click in each of your clips and then either group them to do multicamera editing or edit them into seperate tracks of the same sequence. As the band are miming to the same track each time, you can use multicamer editing even if you only have one camera and just film them playing it over and over.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

AMA will generally try and figure out whether a file is 709 or RGB and if it is RGB, remap it to 709. If you don’t want this to happen you will have to change the source settings.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

I think there is no way to do it with the diagonal wipes. A good alternative is to use animatte as a transition. Draw a square that covers the screen with one diagonal edge, increase the softness and then animate off the screen with keyframes.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Or to delete a range of keyframes set an in and outpoint around them and then do the same as above to one of them.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Select the new clip, then right click on sequence, choose relink and choose “relink to selected in all open bins”. If the TC matches, you might be in luck, but as one was brought in via AMA and one was imported I’m not entirely sure.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

Are the clips still within the BPAV folder structure that they were in from the camera? Why not AMA?

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

FCP and Premiere both allow you to name the clip in the bin without losing the link to or renaming the media file. To shed a little more light on the original question, you can duplicate a clip in one of two ways in Avid if you want it to be in two places at once. If you hold Alt and drag from one bin to another then you will create a clone which will change (name, in/out point) to always match the original clip. Alternatively, if you select any number of clips, it will and press command/control D it will create a duplicate that can be renamed something different to the original. I find both useful and as another poster said, no need to create subclips if its the entire clip you want.

Andrew McKee
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[Andrew Mckee]

The Matrox only gives monitoring in Avid, but the AJA allows both capture and output too.

Andy

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[Andrew Mckee]

Both the AJA I/O Express and the MXO2 Mini work on both FCP and Avid.

Andrew McKee
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